Report Painter COPA

Virendra Sharma (SAP FICO) This document is prepared to guide you for creation of report painter in COPA. Please note that COPA is used for Profitability Analysis based on characteristics you have already defined. You can view COPA report using Tcode – KE30

After executing KE30, system will ask you for Operating Concern. (See above screenshot) In our case we have defined Operating Concern as 9999.

Select your report and click on Execute. After executing, system will ask you selection parameters for report.

Virendra Sharma (SAP FICO)

Give your selection parameter and execute your report.

The above given screenshot is final output of your COPA setting and report painter. Here you can see Profitability Report for any segment as per your requirement.

To get this COPA report we need to define report struc ture as well as Form. Let’s start with setting one by one. Go to Tcode KE34 for creation of form. Here give any name to your form.


After giving form name, click on Create.

Now double click on first row and select “Characteristics”


System will show you some available characteristics.

Select characteristics “Company Code” and transfer it from Available to Selected characteristics box.


Here you can give fixed value by selecting from dropdown list or you can give m anually during report executing. For selection during report executing, check Variable box and give name to your variable.


Click on Check then Confirm.

Now double click on Column and select Value field with characteristics


Select value field from dropdown list then check and confirm.

Follow the same procedure for other column also and select Value field like Revenue, COGS, and Overheads etc. Please note that there is no Value field for Gross Profit or Net Profit. This values are derived from formula i.e. Revenue – COGS = Gross Profit. To add this formula double click on Column and select Formula.


Select values from Formula components i.e. X002, minus sign and X003 respectively.

System will automatically write formula on Formula line box. After inserting formula, click on Confirm or press Enter and give description to Column like G/P in our case.


Press Enter.

Go to menu bar and select Edit option then General Data Selection.


Select characteristics from Available Characteristics box and transfer it to Selected Characteristics box.

For Characteristics Plan/Act. Indicator select value “0” from dropdown list For Characteristics Fiscal Year check mark Variable box then system will appear a new window. Give any name to your local variable and press Enter.


System will appear text as Local Variable automatically

For characteristics Period we have to define global variable separately by using Tcode KE3E. In our case, we have defined a global variable named as &P1 (Period).


Save it. After creating this global variable go to your form and select the same for characteristics Period in General Data Selection.

After this all setting, click on save. Now your Form is ready for COPA report. Our second step is to define Report by using Tcode KE31. Please note that Report will be defined with reference to Form (created in previous step)


Give you report name as per your requirement and select Form then click on “Create”

In COPA we defined so many characteristics during configuration settings. Now we will transfer these characteristics to our report characteristics. Select characteristics you want for COPA report (Please remember to select User defined characteristics also)


Click on Selected characteristics will be moved to right hand side box.


After this all setting click on Save. Now your COPA report is ready to be used through Tcode KE30.

Report Painter COPA

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